I invite readers’ attention to Rajeev Dhavan’s article in Mail Today on when and why Judges should recuse themselves from hearing a matter. The news peg for the article is certainly...
C.B Muthamma passed away today. She was the first woman to have joined the Indian civil service in 1949. She became a part of Indian legal history when she challenged the Foreign Service Rules which...
Sudhir Krishnaswamy has authored an engaging article on the second Mashelkar Report tilted “Mashelkar Report Version II: Wrong Again”. The article is forthcoming in the Economic and...
Vikram undertook a thorough and incisive review of the Delhi High Court decision in the Naz Foundation case in three remarkable posts on this blog. Since then, Arvind Narrain...
The Indian Journal of Constitutional Law will have an online symposium tomorrow October 11th. Prof. Kent Roach’s “Judicial Review of Anti-Terrorism Legislation: The Post-9/11 Experience...
The targeted kidnapping and beheading of a Jharkhand police inspector, almost certainly by Naxalites, is seen as taking the conflict to a new level. Chhattisgarh-based doctor Binayak Sen (whose...
A sense of irony is the only way for me to describe how I felt when I heard about Balagopal’s death. Ordinary people leading ordinary lives die of heart attacks. And despite the simplicity with which...
The Delhi High Court has admitted the Supreme Court’s appeal against Justice Ravindra Bhat’s Sep.2 judgment in the assets case. LAOT’s earlier posts can be read by clicking the...
In a recent article in the British journal Public Law, Shubhankar Dam critiques the Indian Supreme Court’s decision in Rameshwar Prasad. Dam argues that the Court incorrectly identified the...
1. My article, quoting anonymous I.P.experts at Spicy IP and a TTD’s advisor, on why the grant of G.I status to Tirupathi laddu is improper. I ask whether it is an instance of use of a secular...
A quick glance across the web page profiling former judges of the Supreme Court of India left me startled. The list of judges begins with (the famous) Justice Khanna, appointed in 1971, leaving all...
A Maharashtra Assembly ticket given by the Congress party to President Pratibha Patil’s son not only questions the independence of the president’s office, it highlights one of the gravest...
The excessive delay in disposing of mercy petitions has received much public attention recently, especially in the case of Afzal Guru. Last week the Supreme Court expressed its concern about this...